Sightings Archive

Monday 23rd March 2020

• Broomhead Res: Chiffchaff - 2
• Broomhead/Rushy wood: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 ; Coal Tit - 12+ - Dec-15 ; Great Tit - 6 ; Blue Tit - 8 ; Long-tailed Tit - 1 ; Blackbird - 5 ; Nuthatch - 3 ; Chaffinch - 5 ; Wren - 2 ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Woodpigeon - 4
• Burbage Valley: Meadow Pipit - 10+ ; Kestrel - 1 - f ; Stonechat - 1 - m ; Reed Bunting - 1 - m ; Red Grouse - 2 - calling ; Wren - 3 - singing ; Magpie - 1
• Canyards: Stonechat - 1 - female
• Catcliffe: Magpie - 2 - Building a nest next to the petrol station at Morrisons
• Catcliffe Flash: Tufted Duck - 11 ; Gadwall - 2 - Males ; Pochard - 1 - Male ; Great Crested Grebe - 3 ; Skylark - 1 ; Long-tailed Tit - 1
• Centenary Riverside: Chaffinch - 8 - Party feeding near pond 16.00 ; Brambling - 1 - Female among Chaffinch party. ; 320 - 2 - Pond ; Song Thrush - 2 - Pair. ; Sparrowhawk - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 1 - Brief song ; Kingfisher - 1 - Under bridge upriver 16.35
• Cowell Flat: Stonechat - 4 - 2 pairs, one male singing ; Snipe - 1 - chipping
• Hagg Lane Allotments: Greenfinch - 2 - 2 on feeders plot 167 ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - drumming on dead trees nr plot 167 ; Long-tailed Tit - 3 - On feeders on plot 167 ; Bullfinch - 2 - Pair in woods adjacent to plot 167 ; Blue Tit - 6 ; Sparrowhawk - 1 - Over woods ; Great Tit - 5 ; Dunnock - 2 ; Blackbird - 4 ; Woodpigeon - 4 ; Robin - 2 ; House Sparrow - 4 ; Magpie - 3 ; Carrion Crow - 1 ; Coal Tit - 1
• Lost Lad: Red-legged Partridge - 1
• Low Bradfield: Curlew - 61 - plus 1 pr Oystercatcher in field below Agden Res
• Mickleden Beck: 324 - 1 - Mountain Hare
• Morehall Res: Great Crested Grebe - 1 ; Chiffchaff - 4 - singing around res ; 320 - 3 - 2 male and a female on Broomhead to Morehall overflow
• Orgreave Lakes: Little Ringed Plover - 3 ; Chiffchaff - 01-Feb ; Chiffchaff - 3 - Singing ; Black-headed Gull - 200+ ; Great Crested Grebe - 11 - Photo of 2 GCG + 3 Goosander+ Female Goldeneye ; Tufted Duck - 20+ - M&F ; Goosander - 3 - 1M,2F ; Sand Martin - 5 ; Skylark - 6 ; Kestrel - 1 ; Lapwing - 5 ; Pochard - 6 - M&F ; Oystercatcher - 2 ; Common Gull - 1 ; Redshank - 1 ; Greylag Goose - 1 ; Goldeneye - 5 - M&F ; Grey Heron - 1
• Oughtibridge: Peregrine - 1 - Heading south over Clough Grove area 11.05
• Oughtibridge garden: Chiffchaff - 1 - Foraging in garden hedge
• Redmires Top Res: Mistle Thrush - 2 - 2 feeding roadside also 4 siskin in roadside conifers
• Rivelin Valley: Mallard - 3 ; Moorhen - 1 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 ; Dipper - 2 ; Nuthatch - 2 - In and out of nest hole ; Great Tit - 2 ; Blue Tit - 3 ; Woodpigeon - 3 ; 319 - 1 ; Carrion Crow - 2 ; Pied Wagtail - 2 - 1 Alba sp ; Robin - 2 ; Chiffchaff - 1
• RVCP, Main Lake: Sand Martin - 11 - Flew through 1000hr
• Scholes Coppice: 319 - 1 - low along E edge then onto Upper Common ; Stock Dove - 1 - singing ; Woodpigeon - 1+ ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - rattle call ; Wren - 3 - singing ; Robin - 4 - singing ; Blackbird - 1+ - inc 1 singing ; Song Thrush - 1 - singing